Biography

Micha Espinosa is an Arizona-based artist, activist, teacher, and vocal coach. She has performed, lectured, and taught voice around the world since 1992. She is a member of SAG/AFTRA (and a local Arizona board member), and has performed in film, television, and regional theatre. She is a certified yoga instructor. She is a master teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and a trainer for the Fitzmaurice Teacher Certification. She is Associate Professor of Voice and Acting at Arizona State University, School of Film, Dance, and Theatre and affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies. She has served as an officer in Voice and Speech Trainers Association (since 2000), an associate editor for the International Dialects of English Archive (since 2000), and has published several pe-r reviewed articles in the Voice and Speech Review, the Journal for Intergroup Relations, and was a contributing author for The Politics of Actor Training published by Routledge. She is the editor of Monologues for Latino Actors: A Resource Guide to the Contemporary Latino/a Playwrights published by Smith and Kraus. Her research and scholarship examines and contextualizes the current climate with the training of actors of non-dominant groups. She is passionate about social justice in actor training, global perspectives, and the cultural voice.